Harriette Cochran
July 22, 2019 - Harriette Cochran died June 18. She was 81. Cochran was born in 1937 to Harry and Glendora Ballou. She spent her youth in Ben Lomond and later moved to Alameda and San Lorenzo. She graduated from San Lorenzo High School where she met her husband-to-be…
Patrick Ellis
July 18, 2019 - Patrick Ellis, a former Lab engineer, died May 26. He was 86. Ellis was born in Greeley, Colorado, in 1932 to Burr Kensworth Ellis and Ruth Opal Emerson Ellis. The family moved to Venice, California, and later settled in Tracy in 1938. He graduated from…
Moises Ostrovsky
July 15, 2019 - Moises Ostrovsky, a former Lab engineer, died June 17. He was 82. Ostrovsky was born Nov. 7, 1936 to Aaron Ostrovsky and Rosa Schapiro, in the town of Charata, Chaco, Argentina. Soon the family moved to Buenos Aires, where he spent his first few years…
Steve Joe Anglin
June 27, 2019 - Steve Joe Anglin died June 16. He was 61. Anglin was born on Dec. 22, 1957 to Jim and Joann Anglin in Hayward, California. The family later moved to Livermore where he attended Granada High School and met the love of his life, Ann Van Dyke, at the age…
Charles (Charlie) Anderson
June 27, 2019 - Charles (Charlie) Anderson, a former Lab physicist, died June 16. He was 79. Anderson was born in Smithers, West Virginia, and later moved to Cleveland, where he graduated from Case Institute of Technology. After graduation in 1962, he accepted a…
Kimberly Cupps
June 24, 2019 - Kim Cupps, a longtime leader in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Computing Directorate, died June 13. She was 57. Cupps was born and raised in Livermore and was the third child of Jane and Frank Cupps. After graduating from Granada High…
Norman W. Klino
June 21, 2019 - Norman Klino died June 10. He was 76. Klino proudly served as an aviation electronics technician in the U.S. Navy from 1961-1965, flying reconnaissance missions over the Pacific. He was a devoted father and hardworking provider for his family. His…
John T. "Jack" Noonan Jr.
June 21, 2019 - John T. (Jack) Noonan Jr., a former Lab engineer, died April 17. He was 84. Noonan was born on May 26, 1934, to John T. Noonan Sr. and Audrey M. Noonan in Cherokee, Iowa. The Noonan family moved to Livermore, California in 1938 when Livermore's…
James Tom Letras
June 10, 2019 - James Tom Letras, a former senior technical coordinator, died June 3. He was 67. Letras was hired as a Lawrence Livermore Laboratory employee in 2002 and he retired in December 2017. He was a senior technical coordinator in the Manufacturing Engineering…
Heiner Walter Meldner
June 5, 2019 - Heiner Walter Meldner, a former Lab physicist, died May 24. He was 80. Meldner was born on May 21,1939 in Koenigsberg/Prussia, Germany, the second of four children. In 1965 he obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Frankfurt,…
Malcolm Herbert Mac Gregor
May 21, 2019 - Malcolm Herbert Mac Gregor, a former Lab physicist, died April 19. He was 92. Mac Gregor was born on April 24, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan, as the oldest of three sons born to Herbert Mac Gregor and Mary Horvath. He served in the U.S. Navy during World…
Jack Eugene Duncan
May 16, 2019 - Jack Eugene Duncan, a former Lab engineer, died May 2. He was 94. Duncan passed away at his Newcastle home surrounded by his family. He is survived by his daughter Carla Cox, son David (Judy) Duncan, and daughter Linda (Neil) Wyse. Other survivors…
Johnnie Shell
May 14, 2019 - Johnnie Shell, a longtime computer technologist, died April 29. He was 74. Shell was born on Oct. 23, 1945 in Leland, Mississippi. He was the second of three children born to Joe and Isabell Shell. He graduated from Broad Street High School in 1963 and…
Jeffrey Koch
May 9, 2019 - Jeffrey Koch, a former Lab researcher, died May 2. Easily characterized as an innovator, Koch had a decades-long career in inertial confinement fusion and high energy density research. He received his bachelor's degree with honors from Michigan State…
Dorothy Ann (Conner) Pontsler
May 1, 2019 - Dorothy Ann (Conner) Pontsler died April 11. She was 87. Pontsler was born on March 9, 1932, in Spokane, Washington. As a young girl, she lived in Grand Coulee Dam, Washington, was a member of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, sang and…
Jessica Ann Haynie-Rippee
April 29, 2019 - Jessica Ann Haynie-Rippee died April 25. She was 39. Rippee was born Aug 9, 1979 in Livermore to Jerry & Deanna Haynie. After attending Phoenix High School, she spent two years at Las Positas before getting her first job at Music World in Dublin. …
Ralph William Greenlee, Jr
March 18, 2019 - Ralph William Greenlee Jr. died February 28. He was 85. Greenlee was born in Denver, Colorado on May 5, 1933, the only child of Ralph Sr. and Marian. They moved to the Midwest shortly thereafter, eventually settling in Akron, Ohio. He graduated from…
Alan Ronald Mathews
March 11, 2019 - Alan Ronald Mathews died March 7. He was 75. Mathews was born in Woodridge, New Jersey, to Howard and Anne Mathews and relocated with his family to California in 1951. He graduated from Washington High School in Fremont in 1961 and joined the California…
Tammi Ann Moore
March 4, 2019 - Tammi Ann Moore died Feb. 14. She was 48. Moore grew up in Livermore and attended Livermore High School and then Oregon State. She worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the IT field for 10 years before leaving the Lab to work at…
Milton Finger
Feb. 25, 2019 - Milton (Milt) Finger died Feb. 11, 2019. He was 83. Finger, beloved father, husband, grandfather, companion, and friend died unexpectedly on February 11, 2019, while recovering from back surgery at home in Livermore, California. He was known by family…
